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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“For Barton and Johnson to subvert the first amendment is both dishonest and myopic. Dishonest because the founders were abundantly clear that they intended church and state to be separate entities. Myopic because the lack of a religious establishment – the separation of church and state – has been the best friend that religion ever had.” - Dr. Randall Balmer, John Phillips Chair in Religion at Dartmouth [the oldest endowed professorship at Dartmouth College]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/22/mike-johnson-christian-nationalists-first-amendment-church-and-state

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"...to her surprise, found a hidden pocket. Tucked away from prying eyes was two pieces of paper with a series of sentences made up of random words. Sara had a feeling they weren’t so random but perhaps a mysterious handwritten message or a secret code. She posted the papers on her blog and for the next 9 years those two pieces of paper became one of the world’s toughest codes to crack and was dubbed the “Silk Dress cryptogram” it was on the same list of uncrackable codes as the Zodiac Killer cipher."

https://news.umanitoba.ca/cryptic-notes-secret-pockets-and-a-um-code-cracker/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"... like many intellectuals who have attempted such self-sufficiency, the Fruitlanders had failed to anticipate the amount of labor involved in agricultural work."

https://daily.jstor.org/the-alcott-anarchist-experiment/

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

sunflower@nitecrew.rip ("felix of the stars 🌻:nite:") wrote:

happy solstice 🌟

Attachments:

• two painted ornaments on little planks of wood. one is a cat loafing with gold stars in its fur and the other is a cat face with a gold star on its head (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution" - Emma Goldman

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/16/world/middleeast/a-viral-dance-and-happiness-campaign-frustrates-irans-clerics.html

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

sorry, typo. I meant to say that Bob was really good at doing North American accents, adapting to special-effects heavy productions, and had an outsized, menacing physicality to his acting

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

krusynth@mastodon.publicinterest.town ("Bill Hunt") wrote:

I’m struggling to deal with this version of the internet, where hosts are removing people for voluntarily nudity, but not removing nazis.

And a big part of that is because banks & credit card processing companies won’t allow nudity and sex stuff but are totally ok with hate speech.

From a risk perspective this is asinine - very few people have ever died as a result of naked tits, while we’re watching people be murdered in hate attacks daily.

Everything is fucked and backwards.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

It's not genes that make a family.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/22/its-not-genes-that-make-a-family/

Attachments:

• Chart to explain degrees of relatedness (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

It’s happening…

https://mastodon.social/@wongmjane@threads.net/111623466177695539

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Bob would be perfect for a film adaptation of a fanfic I once read where Wolverine and the Beast go sexually insane on each other after Hank discovers and isolates an aphrodisiac chemical in his sweat that only his and Logan's noses are sensitive enough to be affected by

Attachments:

• Screencap of Justin McElroy post: "It's been said before but Bob Hoskins would have made a great Wolverine." Attached is a photo of Bob in his late 30s/early 40s, snarling at the camera. He's showing off some chest hair with a v-neck shirt.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

This year I got to see Haken, Leprous, Heilung, The Dear Hunter, Caligula’s Horse, and Devin Townsend live. Quite happy with that!

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

w3c@w3c.social ("World Wide Web Consortium") wrote:

We are seeking community input for TAG appointees.

The TAG is a special W3C working group, chartered to steward the Web architecture. They document and build consensus around principles of Web architecture; resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG; and help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C.

Please feel free to suggest persons for us to consider, and why. See more at:
https://www.w3.org/blog/2023/seeking-w3c-community-input-for-tag-appointees/

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

nsa@hachyderm.io ("Nina "Erina" Satragno 💫") wrote:

Kinda wanna put this up in my office

Attachments:

• A danger sign in the style of industrial signage. On the top, a red bar with an exclamation mark inside a yellow triangle and the words "DANGER" in all caps. Below to the left, an icon of a hand crossed out. Right of that, the text "Typing passwords is known to cause phishing". (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Will we get a white Xmas this year? Science says no.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/22/waiting-for-our-snow/

Attachments:

• Illustration of Whit Christmas History for Minneapolis (remote)

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Amazon gave me a $100 credit to sign up for their credit card.

I got the card in the mail today and tried to set up auto-pay but it required creating a *different* account, and that process was buggy and locked me out of the account.

... So I called and cancelled the account.

If you want people to use your service, I dunno, make it ... work?

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Trying to work with timeouts and intervals in React makes me want to pour myself a very strong drink.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Buying #Steam games and playing Steam games are two different hobbies.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Someone should introduce the FTC to "browsers":

https://www.ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-research/tech-at-ftc/2023/12/interoperability-privacy-security

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Corned beef hash & eggs are my test of a diner, but my memory is poor. Starting a list to track. What should it be called?

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Hey girl, are u a Figma UI design? Cuz u look amazing but ur requirements are impossible to implement in reality.

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

In case anyone was wondering

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• 671f8c95c0e36768.png (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

kat@is.burntout.org wrote:

Read it like poetry

Attachments:

• Searched for can i bring a gas mask on a plane Jan 4, 2021, 4:06:24 AM UTC Searched for can i bring walkie talkies on a plane Jan 4, 2021, 4:06:16 AM UTC Searched for can i carry a knife on a plane Jan 4, 2021, 5:32:37 AM UTC Searched for boy that escalated quickly? Jan 6, 2021, 9:12:36 PM UTC Searched for hands burning from pepper spray Jan 7, 2021, 3:12:56 AM UTC Searched for hd security cameras Jan 7, 2021, 6:29:33 PM UTC Searched for cs gas Jan 9, 2021, 12:18:46 AM UTC Searched for us capitol Jan 10. 2021. 9:15:54 AM UTC (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

jensimmons@front-end.social ("Jen Simmons") wrote:

@iamdavidobrien None of the other browsers support switch inputs yet. But they will. It’s now part of HTML.

Also, because of how the HTML is designed, if you use `` on a webpage, it will just appear as a checkbox in browsers that don’t have support. Nothing will be broken. Fallbacks FTW!

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Love how Safari just decided an SVG that's a grid item should just span every column unless it has an explicit width.

Why would an element in a grid stay inside its column? Silly. Just ridiculous.

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

The Rust community is so arrogant and holier-than-thou, more so than any language.

Your software being written in Rust doesn't immediately make it better. Your knowing Rust doesn't immediately make you better.

Saying this as someone who's shipped Rust code to 100,000+ devices.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"The public interest in a prompt resolution of this case favors an immediate, definitive decision by this Court. The charges here are of the utmost gravity. This case involves—for the first time in our Nation’s history—criminal charges against a former President based on his actions while in office. And not just any actions: alleged acts to perpetuate himself in power by frustrating the constitutionally prescribed process for certifying the lawful winner of an election."

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-624/293970/20231221105032440_United%20States%20v.%20Trump_CBJ%20Reply.pdf

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

At least it's non-denominational.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/21/if-i-were-asked-to-put-up-a-xmas-display-id-do-this/

Attachments:

• Japan doesn't yet understand Christmas: Santa crucifixion (remote)

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Finally got around to drawing Dan from "Drugs and Wires", an awesome web comic by @cryodraws and Io Black. (Go read it at https://drugsandwires.fail/ !!!)
Just a quick drawing I did yesterday and decided it needed moar cyber, so I edited it a bit in GIMP. :heart_cyber:

#mastoart #sketchbook #DrugsAndWires #cyber #cyberpunk #gimp

Attachments:

• Quick ink drawing of Dan from the web comic "Drugs and Wires", which has been edited digitally. He is looking at the viewer to his left with a mixed expression of sadness and annoyance. He has the sides of his head shaved, the top slightly messy, styled towards the front. On the side of his head a tattoo of the Dreamspace logo is visible. He is wearing a black coat, of which only the collar is visible, popped up, covering his neck and some of his jaw. Behind him some colors in red, blue and purple are mixing into black and glitching. His face is slightly in shadows. (remote)

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

Back to an old #React project based on Redux+Saga.

I'm overwhelmed by how many files and code there is around.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I guess any idiot can find themselves running a state university, which is profoundly depressing.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/21/west-virginia-university-is-so-screwed/

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• Gordon Gee, the incompetent and destructive president of WVU (remote)